January 2003
Princess Madeleine are attending Stockholm University to start her "History of Art" studies. this she will do for a year at least.

She will do the A-level course in "History of Art" at Stockholm&#39;s University. then she will continue with the B course in September.
She was accepted at all of the three universities she applied to, Stockholm, Lund and Uppsala, but choose Stockholm, that is where her friends will study.

Originally posted by samitude@Jan 22nd, 2003 - 4:19 pm I wonder if the other girl in the pictures is a student assigned to show Madeline around or if they were already friends? Does anyone recognise her?

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Princess Madeleine doesn&#39;t have any problems with her parents, she just wants a home of her own.

Madeleine, 20, the youngest of three children, told Swedish tabloid Expressen she&#39;s trying to persuade King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia she needs her own place to live.

"I don&#39;t know if mom and dad are very happy about it," the princess was quoted Wednesday after her first day as an art student at Stockholm University. "They want to keep me for a while longer."

"Slowly but surely I&#39;m trying to make them understand," Madeleine said.

Royal Court spokeswoman Ann-Christine Jernberg wouldn&#39;t comment on the princess&#39; moving plans but said "that is a discussion that all parents have."

The royal family has lived in Drottningholm palace, just outside Stockholm, since 1981. The palace was built in 1662.

Unlike older sister Crown Princess Victoria, 25, who is being groomed as the next monarch of the nation of 8.9 million, Madeleine and her older brother, Prince Carl Philip, 23, can choose their own career.

Carl Philip finished officer training in the Swedish army last month and will study graphic design in the spring. Victoria will take part in a three-week military course in Sweden followed by conflict resolution studies in Washington.

Madeleine, who has studied law, computer science and English, said she enrolled in art science because "it felt right."

She said she tried "not to be noticed" during the first day of class, sneaking quietly into the auditorium

Since the pictures did not show up, I will post a slightly old article about the paparazzi attention she received while in London.

Quote:

Princess Flees Paparazzi

Princess Madeleine of Sweden, who has been studying English in London, has
returned home because of incessant attention from the paparazzi, the Swedish
royal palace said yesterday.

The 19-year-old Princess, who lived in Chelsea, found the pressure of living
under the constant gaze of the press "extremely tough" to handle.

Elisabeth Tarras-Wahlberg, a palace spokesman, said: "She has returned to
Stockholm. One of the reasons, one of the main reasons, was the paparazzi."

Another spokesman said: "It was very difficult with the photographers."

The sporty Princess, the youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen
Silvia, who is third in line to the throne, had been living in London since
last autumn. In general, the Swedish public and media respect the privacy of
their royal family, and as a result they are often seen on the streets of
Stockholm out shopping, in cafes or on the town with friends.

However, freelance photographers are able to sell pictures of the Princess to
a variety of European publications, including the Spanish magazine Hola!.

She had left open the possibility of returning to Britain while spending the
Christmas holidays in Stockholm, but now seems to have decided not to return.

Princess Madeleine was sharing the home of a family friend and told a Swedish
newspaper that she wanted to "live like a normal girl". She added: "I've been
to England a couple of times before and have always been comfortable...I've
always wanted to go abroad, to get to know other cultures and try new things."

In an attempt to control the press interest in her while she was in Britain,
the Princess agreed to meet journalists at the Swedish Embassy in London a few
weeks after she arrived. She said that she hoped to be granted relative
anonymity from then on.

The stress of being in the public eye has taken its toll on a series of Swedish princesses. For several years in the Nineties, Crown Princess Victoria was criticised in the press for being overweight - with one magazine accusing her of having "eaten too many hamburgers". Eventually, in 1997, the King and Queen announced that the 20-year-old heir to the throne was suffering from an eating disorder. More recently, her sister, Princess Madeleine, returned home from studying in London last month, complaining that coping with the paparazzi was "extremely tough".

--Excerpt from "And we think the Windsors are bad... ; Try as they might, the British royals can't seem to keep up with their fast-living European cousins," says Katy Guest
The Independent; London (UK); Feb 8, 2002; Katy Guest;

Today was Madeleine&#39;s first day in school. She is now studying "History of Arts", level A and B, at Stockholm University. Swedish press met Madde at her first day in school and had a chat with her.
Madeleine&#39;s best friend, Louise Gottlieb, is taking the same course as Madde, but according to the princess, it wasn&#39;t planned that they would study together. "But it is nice to have someone you know with you", Madeleine says.
The other students taking the course are of course excited about having a princess in the class, but Madde says that there actually weren&#39;t so many looking at her, and that she tries to keep a low profile.
So, what does she think about taking this course? "I have been interested in this subject for a long time, and with help from my mentor Lena (Ramel) I have found a course that I think is really good. It feels really good to know what I&#39;m going to do for some time now and to have a goal.
Madeleine also said that she wants to get her own place and leave Drottningholm Palace, but she reckons that her mother and father aren&#39;t too excited about this idea, and that she will have to wait some more.